What is love? Some would say love is something you feel deep down inside; others say it’s a sacred bond that two people share with each other, that could also be interpreted as marriage. Love can also be interpreted in the way of loving an object, for example ‘’I love my computer, I’d be nowhere without it.’’ There are four ways of saying ‘’Love’’ in Greek, Eros- which basically is romantic love; love that is shared between lovers or people dating, between two people, Philia-which is the love between friends, Agapē­- which is the love one shares in a marriage, Storge- which is the love you would share between a family member such as our love for our children.

The feeling of love is something that is not a strange to me as I, and talking from a personal experience, fell in love with someone that could never love me in the way that I loved her, she moved in as my next door neighbour, I gave everything I could to her, my love, devotion, time, energy, job and virginity. But all she wanted to do was walk all over me change my life then leave me for another man, which crushed me, ripped out my heart and basically left me there to wallow in my own self pity and tears. And all I could say after all that is the three simple words that are used so commonly these days….. I Love You! Even after the first time she left me it lasted a week before I got her back and even then everything spun around me I was still seeing life through rose coloured glasses, I didn’t notice the sneakiness the strange phone calls, text messages and emails. At work she was different she didn’t focus on the job at hand, she was only focusing on my managers assistant which took me a while, well the space of about two to three months to see and when I saw the predicament I was had myself in the only thing I could do was say the two words no one wants to say…. Good Bye! The time came when she came home from visiting her Dad in Scotland and was planned to meet me at work she worked into the studio, work being at a radio station, and had sat down to get on with that days show when she just comes out and says ‘’I’m not staying for the whole show, I’m going upstairs with Aaron to do some course work.’’ Obviously that’s a real blow to me which means I’m being left at work so that the love of my life was going upstairs to do some apparent “coursework” which is when I tried to save whatever we had left of a relationship even though the cake had been left out in the rain much earlier, a few months earlier to be exact, but the only thing I could say to her was… OK! So when the time came around to five O’clock and it was time for me to retreat back home, she was nowhere to be seen, so I left work and went home alone. That was the last time me and her ever spoke face to face, the occasional message on line but never ended in the nicest of all manners. Thinking about it I saw her at a crossing the other day when I was going to see a grandmother with my Dad she strolled up behind us, she looked at my Dad and said Hello and never said a single word to me, talk about a big kick in the teeth. She now has a new boy friend and I wish them both the best of luck love light and blessings their way.